Three new charges against Huckaby (UPDATED: 10:05 p.m.)

STOCKTON — Prosecutors on Thursday filed three additional felony counts against Melissa Huckaby, charging her with poisoning two people, including a 7-year-old girl and an adult man.

Scott Smith

STOCKTON — Prosecutors on Thursday filed three additional felony counts against Melissa Huckaby, charging her with poisoning two people, including a 7-year-old girl and an adult man.

The girl lived in the same Tracy mobile home park as the slain Sandra Cantu.

Huckaby, 28, is expected to appear in the San Joaquin County Superior Court today for further arraignment on previous charges that she kidnapped, raped and murdered 8-year-old Sandra on March 27 before dumping the girl’s body in an irrigation pond north of Tracy.

Huckaby’s attorney, Sam Behar, was expected to enter a plea on his client’s behalf at today’s hearing but the new charges could lead to a change in the defense strategy.

The new complaint charges Huckaby with a single count of child endangerment and two felony counts of furnishing a harmful substance, which is not identified in the document.

In both counts of alleged poisoning, the complaint says Huckaby “did willfully and unlawfully mingle a harmful substance with food or drink with the intent that (it) be taken by a human being.”

Read Friday’s Record for more on this story by staff writer Scott Smith.

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